The Evidence of Air Photography: Elementary Comparative Studies Applied to Sites at Mount Down, Hants, and Near Malmesbury, Wilts

Hampton, J. N.

doi:10.1017/s0003581500029590

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“…7 m). 11 The use of deep foundation trenches to hold timber walls rigidly in place is very much a Yeavering-style building technique, but there is no evidence at Northampton of continuous jointed timber walls. Yeavering is well known as a Northumbrian palace of the seventh century, and the Atcham complex is regarded as having been of similar status.…”

Section: The Context For Anglo-saxon Northampton (Fig-6)mentioning

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From ‘palace’ to ‘town’: Northampton and urban origins

Williams

1984

Anglo-Saxon England

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In the second half of the twelfth century Northampton was one of the largest and wealthiest towns in all England. This represented, however, only a transient phase, since by the early part of the fourteenth century the town had assumed a more modest position. As a result of a series of disastrous fires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, little now survives to remind us of Northampton's former medieval glories, and its earlier development has been until recently but dimly perceived. Over the last decade, however, archaeological and other research has facilitated the identification of elements of continuity in the upper Nene basin (in which Northampton lies) stretching back several thousand years. 1 In particular it is now possible to demonstrate that the late Saxon borough emerged as the culmination of a gradual evolutionary process throughout the Anglo-Saxon period rather than as the result of a single dramatic act of foundation. This has important implications for ideas relating to the re-emergence of towns in the ninth and tenth centuries and is particularly significant in that Northampton has no obvious major Romano-British antecedent.

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Section: The Context For Anglo-saxon Northampton (Fig-6)mentioning

confidence: 99%